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Rustics by Bob Tucker |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Collection of four sketches. No set requirements, simple props (and only two of those). The sketches could be presented together, or could be used separately (for example as front-of-curtain interludes in a sketch show). |
Synopsis | Two local yokels discuss whatever comes to mind! |
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Samaritans, Can I Help You? by Brendan Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play, dealing with a disturbing subject. Single simple set, simple props. Contains swearing and sexual themes. |
Synopsis | A man in torment over a love affair calls the one organisation he feels might listen without prejudice. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Scrabble, Stamps and Goldfish by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | Nigel is fat and unhappy, so his friends are trying to find him a woman through an online dating service. Sadly, Nigel isn't very enthusiastic, or very decisive, so Bob and Ron have to make a lot of the decisions for him. Surely there's someone out there for him? |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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A Servant Plays for High Stakes by Vithal Rajan |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
Synopsis | Game Four in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. British Chess Champion Sultan Khan recreates his 1932 defeat of Frederick Yates as an allegory for Gandhi's non-violent resistance to British colonial occupation of India. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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The Sinister Mrs Eaves by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set (Sherlock Holmes' study). |
Synopsis | Holmes and Watson tackle the bizarre case of the Sinister Mrs Eaves and twenty-one-and-a-half Harper Street without leaving their comfortable rooms at 221b Baker Street. A fine Holmes mystery with more than a touch of humour. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Small Talk by Martin Ward |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | One song suggested, to be played at rise. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
Style | A one act drama with a single (living room) setting. |
Synopsis | Mark has invited Ian to his flat for a drink, but Ian doesn’t know why. In fact, they went to the same school twenty years before, and Ian was a bully who made Mark's life a misery. Now Mark has plans to gain revenge. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Stairway to Heaven by Johnny Grim |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three middle-aged blokes, one of whom is the Archangel Gabriel. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy play, single set (or lack of set, since it takes place at the the ultimate ephemeral location - just outside the pearly gates). Australian in tone, but universal in humour. |
Synopsis | Robbie, a biker, meets Alfred, a civil servant, outside the gates to heaven. Unpredictably, they get on quite well, but there's been a bit of a mix-up, and the angel Gabe isn't sure if either of them should be going in... |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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Stan and Tony by Clive David Lloyd Williams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 54 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act comedy drama on a single (living room) set. |
Synopsis | One afternoon in the 1960s, two giants of British comedy met briefly, when Tony Hancock visited Stan Laurel at his home in Santa Monica. Hancock was a very successful radio and TV star of the 1950s and 60s whilst Laurel’s slapstick movies with Oliver Hardy were top box office in the 1920s-40s. This is a play suggesting events which may have taken place during their unpublicised encounter. |
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The Substitute by Duncan Battman |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One-act play in the form of a monologue. Dramatic content, though the direct action is minimal. Contains strong language and adult themes. |
Synopsis | A long but dramatic monologue delivered by Frank, an ex-footballer who is now confined to a wheelchair. As he packs up his room he relates the ups and downs of his life, right up to the startling conclusion. |
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A Tale of a Nail by Nicholas Richards Performance by Central High School finished as runner-up in the Maine Principals Association drama competition 2014 |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Whilst Mr Gauche, for example, is given a gender, it isn't really key to the plot! Many of the characters, are, when all's said and done, anthropomorphic personifications of cells and micro-organisms. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act play set in the imagination of a character fighting off an infection, where the protagonists - germs and blood cells - act-out their roles. Fantasy, but with a lot of educational value. |
Synopsis | When Mr Gauche accidentally hammers a nail through his thumb, he only wants medical help from the Doctor, but he gets a thorough lesson in the body's defence mechanisms anyway. A musical version is available here. |
Price | Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. |
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